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THE DAILY PIONEER.
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher
Entered in the postofflco at Bemidjl. Minn.,
as second class matter.
PUBLISH EVKRY APTERN'OON.
Official County and City Paper.
The following signs are too
conspicuously displayed in Cass
Lake: "To.Rent," To Let,' For
Sale." But probably the expec
tation of future business on the
strength_pf the land office has in
duced the owners of property to
look for better places of invest
ment and incidentally avoid the
last struggles of those remaining
who are not able to pay the
necessary fare out of Cass Lake.
The change in the Bulgarian
ministry at Sofia is supposed to
insure peace between Bulgaria
and Turkey, as the raving Bul
garian bands will no longer be
permitted to make raids into
Macedonia.
While the northern papers are
putting wreaths on the head of
the southern negro, why don't
some one cast a few wreaths at
the western Chinaman and east
ern Dago?
Capt. Sverdrup's opinion that
Americans will eventually dis
cover the north pole because they
have the money. The Americans
don't seem to be looking for such
blind investments just now.
The strike at Omaha is closing
out. As usual, a sufficient num
ber of non-union men has been
secured to take the place of the
strikers.
ELIZA'S BUNCH OF KEYS. 1
They Paid Her Well Until the Police
Took a Hand.
"Eliza had a bunch of keys, etc."
We do ^not remember ever to have
read of a more clever plan for divert
ing some of the superfluous wealth
of the world into one neglected chan
nel than that of Eliza Holman, who
is only 15.
Her stock-in-trade, her jimmy, her
center bit, appears to have been a
bunch of keys. These keys were not
designed to fit immediate and obvious
use^.they were "duffing" keys.
Elfza would admit to having found
them in the street, outside a public
building or schoolhouse. She implied
that they might happily belong to
some one of the inmates, and while
these keys were being tried by unsus
picious principals or headmistresses,
Eliza, waiting patiently in the sanc
tum or office of the said officials,
picked in there what she considered
worth her while.
The keys were forthwith returned
to her and served again another day.
There were twenty charges against
Eliza.London Sketch.
HACKS DRAW FIRE APPARATUS.
Town Authorities of Salina, Kan.,
Evolve Good Scheme.
A Kentuckian, who recently visited
Salina, Kan., writes to a Kentucky pa
per as follows: "I wish to tell you of
something I saw in Kansas. As I sat
in the hotel in Salina the fire bells
rang. In a second three rubber-tired
hacks standing in front of the hotel
started. Before I could ask I saw
three hose carts hitched to the axles
of the hacks, about one dozen firemen
comfortably seated in the hacks, and
under whip the procession disappeared
at full speed." Not beins able to
maintain a team of horses at the fire
station the town resorted to the ex
pedient of offering a good price for
the first team that shall arrive and
hitch to the hose cart. The hacks,
being on constant duty, often vie with
one apother for the prize, and the
general result in point of quick service
is not so much behind the city system
as some might suppose.Kansas City
(Mo.) Journal.
HOW HE HORRIFIED HER.
Wife of President Hadley Unable to
Echo His Wish.
One pleasant day last fall, so' the
story goes. President Hadley of Yale
was strolling through the beautiful
campus of Dartmouth college with
his wife on his arm. They were ad
miring the beautiful buildings which
dot the campus, several of them hav
ing been erected by wealthy alumni.
Presently they came to an especially
noble hall, built of stone, and occu
pying a commanding site. Over the
main entrance was a marh1
which announced that the ..all had
been erected by "John C. Blank as a
memorial to his Beloved Wife:"
President Hadley stood and looked
at the noble pile for a moment. Then
he heaved a sigh that was almost en
vious.
"Ah," he said, "that is what I
should like to do for my college."
And to this day, the boys declare.
President Hadley cannot understand
why his wife should have looked so
horrified.St. Louis Mirror.
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SAVED FROM DEATH.
Little Girl Is Snatched From an Awful
Fate Before the Eyes of Her Mother.
Winona, May 20. A special stock
train was going through the city yes
terday at a high rate of speed when a
little child was seen on the track
some distance in front of the engine.
It was impossible to stop the train in
time, and the fireman, whose name has
not been learned, climbed out on the
running board and thence to the
pilot. He was just in time to reach
down and pick up the little girl as the
engine thundered over the spot where
she stood. The train was stopped
within a couple of blocks and the child
was given to the mother, who realized
I the child's danger and was running
frantically toward the track to save
her.
HEAVY LOSSES IN MONTANA.
Sunday's Snowstorm Plays Havoc
With Lambs.
Butte, Mont.. May 20.Advices from
northern and southern sections of the
state tell of extremely heavy losses
among lambs as a result of the snow
storm which prevailed Sunday. Dillon
reports say tens of dozens of young
lambs have fallen beneath the fierce
ness of the heaviest blizzard for May
in the history of this section. A Great
Falls special says that H. H. Wilson, a
slieepherder on the range near Port
age, has been lost and undoubtedly
frozen to death. Wilson's horse was
found wandering in deep drifts.
Ranchers about Fort Benton, Cascade
and Geyser have suffered heavily and
reports of losses come in from every
side.
TIRED AND WORRIED.
White Just Disappears and Turns Up
at Duiuth.
Duluth, May 20.R. F. White, the
son of one of the most prominent
business men of Cleveland, for whom
the police of the country have been
looking for the past ten days, is in this
city. White left home without telling
any one in his family where he was
going, it is said, and thereby caused
great anxiety, resulting in the notifi
cation to the police. The theory was
advaaced that he had committed sui
cide, and search was made for the re
mains. He simply said he was wor
ried and tired of work and came away
for a rest. Ho has communicated with
his parents and will return home at
once.
BOBLETER BANQUETED.
Tribute by the People of New Ulm to
the New General of the State.
New Ulm, Minn., May 20.Gen. Bob
leter was the guest of honor at a
banquet given by the citizens and busi
ness men of this city at the Dakota
house. There were present seventy
five men and the occasion was de
clared to be one of the best of the
kind that has been given in the city.
At the conclusion of the feast Hon. S.
D. Peterson called the gathering to
order, and, acting in the capacity of
toastmaster, paid his respects to the
guest of honor. The general answered
the speeches in a very happy mannej.
CULLING IT OUT.
Dead-and-Down Timber Will Find Its
Way to Market.
Duluth, May 20.Several portable
mills, to cut dead-and-dbwn timber,
are going in at various points. There
is one north of Two Harbors, some on
the line of the Great Northern toward
Fosston and near Hinckley, and one
is to start between Nickerson and
Sandstone. Old timber that has lain
on the ground for years is being care
fully culled and a surprising amount
of good stock is being made from it.
There is much that is absolutely
worthless and the buyers have to ex
ercise the greatest caution.
KILLED ON TRESTLE.
Boy Fishing Is Caught by a*Passenger
Train.
Janesville, Minn., May 20. A pas
senger train caught Eddie Koenth, son
of Carl Koenth, od the trestle near
town and killed him instantly. The
boy was fishing with several other
companions, and in attempting to
cross the track, slipped and fell. Both
legs were severed, and his head was
i literally chopped in two.
Secretary Wilson at Home.
Traer, Iowa. May 20. James Wil
ton, secretary of agriculture, accom
panied by his private secretary. Jas
per Wilson, arrived here yesterday to
spend a few days at his old home. The
secretary has been in the South sev
eral weeks delivering agricultural ad
dresses and looking after experi
mental work. He goes to join the
presidential party and will accompany
it on the return trip.
Burglars Blow Safe.
Paulina. Iowa. May 20.The safe irr
A. Williamson's roller mills was bur
glarized last night, the front door DP
ing blown entirely off. Owing to 1he
ringing of the burglar alarm and the
timely arrival of the city night watch
the burglars had to flee and got noth
ing Oi value. No clue.
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Forest Fires in Montana.
Havre, Mont.. May 20.Forest fires
in the Bear Paw mountains have
burned over a tract eight miles long
and six miles wide. One big sawmill
and a number of cabins and barns
have been swept away. So far as can
be learned there was no loss of life.
Cloud Burst.
Grand ForTts, N."D. May 20.Heavy
rain fell last night some miles south
of the city. At Hillsboro the rainfall
was nearly a foot, and points near
Crookston report a cloudburst.
I Backwoods
Sketches...
BY
A. M.
QREELEY
A DEAD FAILURE.
"Just after we had organized
Popple township," said Cut Foot
Pete, for the third time within
ten minutes he filled his pipe
with Peerless, "we discovered
that it was the duty of the town
board to lay out a graveyard.
Well, we bought five acres of
Brooks and one of the supervis
ors Five-acres I thought was
pretty steep for a country bone
yard, but Brooks said that was
the regulation size down where
he come from, so we bought it.
Besides, Brooks had just bought
a new gun and needed the money.
Us supervisors fixed up the yard
in great shape till it looked as
cute as a girl in boys' clothes.
"Then we sat down and waited
for the rush of stiffs. But blame
.it nobody seemed to want to be
first to jump in and settle there.
People kept on being just as spry
and healthy as if a graveyard was
an every day thing. We were
plump discouraged, as the cat
said when she saw her tenth
family drowned.
"One day a stranger happened
along from nowhere with no glue
and wanted the town to help him.
'Boys,' says he, 'I'm most as
good as a dead man. One of my
lungs is gone complete, and the
other haint got enough wind to
fan a mosquito. You ought to
take care of me for a little spell.
I'm good as dead now and only
need a preacher and a psalm
book to make a funeral any day.'
"That cheered us right upit
was a high spot in a low swamp.
Here was a chance to give our
graveyard a fair start, anyhow.
So we took care of him, and one
of us was with him day and night
to watch him flicker out. But he
didn't die according to contract.
When he first come he was thin
and weak as a tobacco sack, but
by a month he was looking as
prosperous as a livery stable rat.
Never saw a man pick up so.
"Well, we notified him to travel
some we had lost all confidence
in him. But he begged to stay
like a school boy. 'Boys,' says
he, 'I'm not deceiving you.
Don't judge a man by appear
ances. I'm most dead. There
ain't enough wind in my off lung
to last more than two days.'
"We fired him and went in a
bunch to our lonesome bone yard
and filled in the grave we had dug
weeks afore We were plumb
disgusted. But we were more
tired a day after when we heard
the stranger had told the truth.
He fell dead in the road in the
new town, and the unfeeling peo
ple there had him buried afore
we heard of it.'"
AT THE CHURCHES
Sunday, May 24, Union Memorial
ervices will be held at the city hall
at 11 o'clock a. ro.
%Rev. Foster,
assisted by Revs. Bloomfield and Mc
Leod conducting the services.
At the Presbyterian church next
Sunday there will be no church in the
morning. Union Memorial service at
the city hall in the evening. The sub
ject will be, "Failed in Business."
Sermon to business men. Everybody
welcome. J. F. McLeod, pastor.
Flatiron Pincushion.
"One of the latest of kitchen utensil3
to take its place on the dressing table
is the flatiron. which has been con
verted into a thing of ornament as well
as use. Its use in the bedroom is that
of a pincushion, and it is stood face
outward, in the position in which
good housewives put away this kitchen
bric-a-brac. Of course it is only a
flatiron In shape, for it is made of
stout cardboard cut the shape of a
small flatiron face. This is padded
with cotton and covered smoothly with
satin. A handle of heavy wire is added
and wound with narrow ribbon, which
is tied in bows where the handle joins
the cushion part.Brooklyn Eagle.
Maxim Gorky Is Wealthy.
It is possible that Maxim Gorky
would reply in the affirmative should
anyone ask him. "Does literary work
pay?" He was poor as a church
mouse before he began writing, but
one of his recent transactions was
the purchase for $150,000 of a fine old,
estate on the banks of Mie River
Volga,
THE WAYS OF ROOSTERS.
Philosopher Asserts They Do Too
Much Crowing.
"I've heard a good deal in my time
about the foolishness of hens, but
when it comes to right-down, plum
foolishness, give me a rooster, every
time. He's always strutting and
stretching anO" crowing and bragging
about things with which he had noth
ing to do. When the sun rises, you'd
think that he was making all the
light, instead of all the noise when
the farmer's wife throws the scraps
in the henyard, he crows as if he was
the provider for the whole farmyard
and was asking a blessing on the.
food when he meets another rooster,
he crows and when the other rooster
licks him, he crows and so he keeps
it up straight through the day. He
even wakes up during the night and
crows a little on general principles.
But when you hear from a hen, she's
laid an egg, and she don't make a
great deal of noise about it, either."
From "Letters from a Self-Made
Merchant to His Son," by George
Horace Lorimer. By permission of
Small, Maynard & Co., publishers,
Boston, Mass.
ART IN SKIRT LIFTING.
French Girl Excels American in This
Matter.
"Inherent grace is no greater in
French girls than in American girls,"
said Mme. Baker at the national con
vention of dressmakers. "But in the
dajnty art of carrying their skirts in
their hands while taking the air of
the boulevards, French girls are in
comparably superior to their Ameri
can cousins. The secret is that the
French maid's petticoat is made to
clear the ground, while the Ameri
can's drop skirtisas long as the
outer garment. The American must
lift both skirts to prevent their trail
ing in the dirt of the streets. She
grasps a great bundle of unwieldy
cloth, so heavy and clumsy that
almost invariably she pulls it around
in a way that plays havoc with the
effectiveness of her gown. The
French demoiselle has only the outer
skirt to care for, and she has no need
of muscle to lift with fairy grace the
fabric.Chicago Record-Herald.
FENCING GOOD FOR WOMEN.
Exercise That Will Impart Grace and
Physical Strength.
Those who have seen women who
are expert fencers recognize that it
is an extremely graceful amusement.
Many ladies are taking fencing les
sons.
Strength of leg is necessary, as
well as of wrist, and much activity.
But it is a most admirable exercise,
improving the figure and developing
the muscles, and is worthy to be
made an art.
It is not only physical strength that
is required for this amusement, but
keenness of the eye and dexterity of
the wrist, and these are quite woman-
:y. Quickness or pcxccptioo and ac
tion are necessary.
But He Won't'Do It.
Johnny's mother had .been anxious
to instill into the miud of her youth
ful son the necessity of reading at
least a few verses from the Bible
each day. She is anxious that her
son shoulc have a knowledge of the
Bible as well as other books in fact,
she thinks a reading of the great
book the best means of gaining a
good understanding of English and
history. The little fellow has been
adding a verse through the Psalms,
Proverbs and those books as he ad
vances in reading. The other even
ing he was reading in a particularly
deliberate style when he came upon
the passage, "Keep thy tongue from
evil and thy lips from guile." "Keep
thytongue(fromevilandthy
lip?fromgirls," he drawled out.
Greeley's Piety.
Horace Greeley was one of the
most profane men that ever lived.
Cursing was second nature to him.
He even called himself names that
would cause a duel in the South if
applied to a friend or enemy. When
he realized that he was dying he said
aloud: "Well, the devil's got you at
last, you dd old A week after
the funeral his daughter, Miss Gabri
elle Greeley, wrote to Whitelaw Reid,
the young editor in the Tall Tower
(Tribune), to know what were the
words of her father. Reid wrote:
"Your dear father's last words were,
know that my Redeemer liveth.'
New York Press.
Fire Extinguisher.
Old fashioned women always pro
vided themselves with fine gowns for
use in the possible event of being
forced to face a fire in a scanty night
toilet. The modern women meet the
same possibility by storing, in a con
venient place in every room, bottles
filled with a mixture made from ten
pounds of salt, five pounds of sal am
moniac and four and a half gallons
of water, says the Chicago News.
Should a fire start break a bottle or
two of this over the burning place.
If used in time it will put out a small
fire, and in any event may delay the
ravages of the flames till the engines
arrive.
Found His Mother's Corpse.
Talking about railroad accidents,
there was one with a particularly sad
feature near New York a day or two
ago. A middle-aged woman was run
down at a grade crossing and dread
fully injured. A surgeon living near
was called, but before he could get to
the spot the watchers had placed a
rug over the face of the victim. She
was dead. The surgeon stepped up
and with professional coolness re
moved the rug to see the face. Then
he shrieked and fell unconscious be
side the corpse. It was his mother.
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SPRING STOCK.
The Pioneer Harness Shop has put
in an elegant line of
Summer Horse Wear
We carry in stock eyerything in the
Harness and Saddlery Line.Har-
nessOil, Mica Axle G-rease,
Whips, Lap Robes, Fly
Nets, Etc.
Also the celebrated International Stock Food.
OUR MOTTO: Reasonable Prices and Fair Treatment.
THE PIONEER HARNESS SHOP
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for sale or rent. Huntrrs Equip
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